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Take a shower, shine your shoes/ You got no time to lose/ You are young men you must be living/ So go now you are forgiven.

-The General, Dispatch

Saturday, April 7, 2012

April 6/7: Yeah Yeah Yeah, I KNOW! Here Is Some Music and Words.

I failed BEDA. I did. It was going so well, and then POOF. So here is a extra super long bloggy type post to compensate for the fact that I cannot finish anything. So here are two things. I hope you like my things.

Also, a huge thank you to the people who gave me ideas for my play! They really helped! You got the brain juices flowing, and the bubble bath was awesome. Y'all are just the best.

Thing 1: A List of Jennelle's Favorite* Songs Right Now
*Keep in mind that I listen to a LOT of music, so favorite isn't so much of a permanent thing. Things change. A lot. So here's twenty songs I like right now.

The Fault In Our Stars - Bloom
If you've read the book, it is based on it. If you haven't, it is still a really good song.

Indigo - Tom Milsom
I think that Tom Milsom is a genius when it comes to music. He doesn't try to fit into any set genre. He's his own thing. Plus this song teaches you the names to about a billion cool colours.

Keasbey Nights - Streetlight Manifesto
Try singing this song. Very hard. But you will still totally try.

Okay, I'm done with boring you all with my weird music tastes. I listen to a lot more than what I've shown you, since I've highlighted a few artists or whatever, but yeah. I really like these songs, and I fully endorse the artists, because they are all brilliant.

Thing 2: A Snippet of My Play
I promised you guys that I would show you this, so here is a little bit of my play. I hope you enjoy it, because this play is killing me. It's due in a week and I'm not even halfway done. Anyway, no complaining. Enjoy!

" GARRETT

(gives her a face; shoves some
noodles in his mouth, talking around them)

So
what? Don’t tell me that you wouldn’t
change it if you could?

VALERIE

By
‘it’ you mean my disability, right? I
don’t think I would, actually.

RUTH

Why
is that, Valerie?

VALERIE

I
like who I am. So, I have a disability,
and sometimes life doesn’t make sense.
But that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t wish it away. My disability makes me unique.

(everyone freezes, save GARRETT)

GARRETT

(sets down Chinese food, stands
up)

See,
this is why I didn’t want to come. ‘My
disability makes me unique’. Sure, having a disability might make you different, but if I could get rid of my Tourette’s, I would. In a heartbeat. And the anxiety that comes
with the Tourette’s? Yeah, I could
really do without that. And the headaches that I get when I try to conceal my
tics? Yeah, they are just a barrel of
freaking laughs. I was seven when they
gave me my diagnosis. Seven. It’s been ten years. And living with this hasn’t gotten any
easier.

(sits)

(everyone unfreezes)

GARRETT

(a certain level of contempt)

Your
disability makes you ‘unique’? Is that
so? Well, just hop on board the obvious
train and get yourself a prize! What do
you have, anxiety?

(waits for VALERIE to respond; when she
doesn’t, continues, with a kind of malicious glee)

(cont.)
Or is it something even more embarrassingly un-disabled? What is it, huh? Is it a panic disorder?

(VALERIE fidgets, obviously uncomfortable. GARRETT has hit his mark.)

(cont.)
It is a panic disorder, isn’t it? Well,
aren’t you a special snowflake?

VALERIE

(close to tears)

You
don’t have to be so mean! We’re all here
because we’re disabled, whether you want to admit it or not. You don’t have to be such a massive dick about
it!

GARRETT

(yelling)

Accept
that you aren’t unique! Having a
disability makes you disabled, and that’s it! Deal with it!

(VALERIE bursts into tears and runs from
the room. Everyone else is deadly quiet.
WALTER and JACK look awkwardly at one
another; ABBY signs ‘do you understand what happened?’ at LIV and LIV shakes
her head and signs ‘no’. RUTH is furious)

RUTH

(deadly calm; this is a side of RUTH that is rarely
seen, but she is like a mama bear right now.)

Garrett,
there is no reason for you to talk to Valerie that way. This group was created for support and I’m not
going to have you undermine its inherent message by letting you degrade its
members. You just attacked Valerie
personally, and believe me when I tell you that it will never happen again. Now, you will go find Valerie, and
apologize. Right now.

(everyone turns and looks at GARRETT, who
holds up his hands in defeat)

GARRETT

(holds up his hands in defeat)

Fine. I’ll go
apologize. But only because you asked so
nicely.

(blackout)"

So yeah, that was part of my play. Please tell me what you thought of it, I could really use your help!

I think that that compensates for me forgetting yesterday. In my defense, I was reading A Game of Thrones, so there.

Happy Easter/Passover to all, and to all a good night! Day. Whatever, you know what I mean.